General Dynamics (GD): Today's Featured Industrial Goods Winner

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General Dynamics ( GD) pushed the Industrial Goods sector higher today making it today's featured industrial goods winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 1.5%. By the end of trading, General Dynamics rose $1.49 (1.7%) to $91.11 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1,730,769 shares of General Dynamics exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,358,800 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $89.83-$91.16 after having opened the day at $90.00 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $89.62. Other companies within the Industrial Goods sector that increased today were: ZBB Energy Corporation ( ZBB), up 25.0%, Research Frontiers ( REFR), up 20.8%, Arotech Corporation ( ARTX), up 11.0% and Daktronics ( DAKT), up 9.5%.

General Dynamics Corporation, an aerospace and defense company, provides business aviation; combat vehicles, weapons systems, and munitions; military and commercial shipbuilding; and communications and information technology products and services worldwide. General Dynamics has a market cap of $31.6 billion and is part of the aerospace/defense industry. Shares are up 29.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate General Dynamics a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates General Dynamics as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.